Documentation

Content production

• NEW Data Backup and Removal: This article describes how removed data is backed up and when it is removed permanently, including how deleted_at works, automatic delayed permanent removal, manual permanent removal, and undeleting data.

• NEW Use case: Implementing Social Media Preview Cards
• UPDATED topics related to notifications: 

• Notifications
• Creating an Email Notification
• Creating an SMS Notification
• Creating an API Call Notification

• UPDATED Liquid - Whitespace Control 

• UPDATED Authenticate Your Environment - added note on authentication when logged in with Google or GitHub based on user request 

• UPDATED Effective Development Using the pos-cli - added animated terminal to the section about concurrently 

• UPDATED Form Configuration Options 

• UPDATED Context Variable - extended explanation of context.session based on user request  

• PLANNED Add Google Captcha v3 or other to feedback and contact forms 

• PLANNED Add topic: improved authorization scheme based on OAuth tokens
• PLANNED allcontributors bot
• PLANNED Fix contributors 

• PLANNED Update use case for social cards

• PLANNED Use case: Algolia 


Improvements, fixes

• UPDATED Improved auto-generated steps in tutorials
• UPDATED Unified all file paths of examples, all start with the app directory 

• UPDATED Changed return_to to redirect_to in examples 

• UPDATED Removed slug from front matter (now auto-generated based on file location)

• UPDATED Removed slugs from example code snippets 

• FIXED All category links to point to the first topic in the category 


UX

Design and Development

• NEW Form's metadata is now also accessible on the form object via form.metadata. Read more in the Release notes.

• NEW index..liquid will have a default slug pointing to root. Read more in the Release notes.

• NEW Add metadata to form metadata

• NEW Index pointing to root

• IN REVIEW GraphQL formatted date 

• IN REVIEW Postgres: set timeout for queries

• IN PROGRESS platformOS.com - New blog and blog post page layout


Improvements, fixes

• FIXED The misleading error message "Form configuration has not been found" which was rendered via pos-cli when you tried to delete a resource which did not exist has been fixed and will include the correct name of the resource which you try to delete.

• FIXED FormConfiguration for 'assets/scripts/script.js'

• IN PROGRESS If you log form or any other of those variables inside default_payload their values will appear the same.


Development

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note Apr 20, 2020 — form.metadata, index.html pointing to root